The accounts of travellers uniformly state that it is a work of no merit--either barbarously executed, or left unfinished by the sculptor--and probably much worn by exposure to the weather.

A sketch made by a recent visitor and kindly communicated to the author, seems to show that, while the general form of the animal was tolerably well hit off, the proportions were in some respects misconceived, and the details not only rudely but incorrectly rendered.

The extreme shortness of the legs and the extreme thickness of the tail are the most prominent errors; there is also great awkwardness in the whole representation of the beast's shoulder.

The head is so mutilated that it is impossible to do more than conjecture its contour.

Still the whole figure is not without a certain air of grandeur and majesty.